<br> November 13th is going to be a special day. Sun Meadow Productions presents Canadian Folk icon James Gordon to the resort for a live after dinner show! Tickets are available from Sun Meadow office for $8. Here's a recent write up on James to wet your musical appetite! Plugged In by: MIKE BEGGS of the Brampton Guardian.com <br>If there is a latter day Canadian folk icon, James Gordon just 05 be it. <br>The Guelph, Ontario-based singer/songwriter/guitarist has released more than 30 albums between his time with the respected band Tamarack, and his more recent solo works, while becoming a familiar figure on CBC-Radio shows like Basic Black. [At Sun Meadow he will sing solo and accompany himself on guitar and banjo.]<br>Indeed, his song Frobisher Bay was named Favorite Canadian Roots Song in a recent CBC Radio contest. <br>Gordon's latest CD Endomusia (on Borealis Records) has earned his best Stateside airplay to date, cracking the Top 30 on U.S. folk radio. Based way in the folk tradition, it includes a tribute to child murder victim Randal Dooley, a gutbusting protest song againt the new smoking regulations, and tales of his own life in on the road in Impossible Disguise. <br>He's just off a trip to the Maritimes, where he was teaching songwriting in the schools. He works with every class on a different theme, and at the end an album is recorded. In this way, some of the area's history is recaptured. <br>Gordon did much the same thing for years with Tamarack, researching about the towns they passed through. <br>&quot;It's kind of a neat thing to immerse yourself in a community for a while,&quot; he said. &quot;I've grown to learn there's a need out there for people to learn about themselves, and their identity. It's a thrill for me.&quot; <br>Gordon is among those Canadian acts bent on boosting the nation's fragile self-image. <br>&quot;We're so overwhelmed by U.S. culture,&quot; he said. &quot;I tour a lot in in the U.S. and they say, &quot;You sound so Canadian&quot;. They see it, we don't.&quot; <br>Much as Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, he grew up on the music of stellar Ontario songwriters like Willie P. Bennett, and David Essig. <br>&quot;They took what came before, and carved out their own niche in Canadian music,&quot; he said. &quot;The fact you can have a regional sound of international interest is what I've always strived for.&quot; <br>More recently, Gordon has found himself, &quot;wanting to work on a bigger canvas.&quot; Among other side projects, he penned the folk opera Hardscrabble Road, and has three other pieces of musical theatre on the go (including one in Tunbridge On Wells, England). <br>In the past year, he also released the CD, The Song The River Sings commissioned by the Canadian Heritage River Society. <br>&quot;I've always written songs for rivers,&quot; he said. &quot;I (was given) 12 Canadian rivers to focus upon.&quot;<br><br><br><br> </td>